Pocket-shield.



No. 726,850. PATENTEDA MAY 5, 1903.4

A. BERNSTEIN. I POCKET SHIELD.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 1e. 1902.

NO MODEL.

'rjuc Ncnms PETERS cu, Pnomuma, wnsumamn. n cy No. 726,850. j Patented May 5, 190e.

NTTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER BERNSIEIN, QF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES LEVY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

POCKET-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 726,850, dated May-5,1903.

Application filed June 16, 1902-v SerialNo. 111,976. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: or the like from the middle of` the quantity Beit known thatI ,ALEXANDEE BERNSTEIN, contained within the shield. The metal 5o a subject of the King of Great Britain, residshield is usually covered with leather or other ing at 45 SeymourrPlace,`Bryanston Square, suitable or durable covering 6, and I prefer 5 London, England, have invented a new and to add to it an outside pocket 4, as shown in useful Improved Pocket-Shield, of which the Eig. l, specially for the purpose of containfollowing is a specification. Y ing visiting-cards or other small and light ob 55 My invention relates to a shield or protecjects. Y tion for enabling fragile articles, especially The dimensions of my apparatus are obvi- 1o cigars, cigarettes, and the like, to be carried ouslylimited by the purpose for which it is apa loose in the pocket of an ordinary vest or plied, andingeneralitis most conveniently jacket without injury by friction against the formed to iit the vest-pocket 5 and to contain 6o garment or against other articles which may one or two rows of cigarettes or a proportional be placed in the same pocket. number of small cigars. The contents are 15 My invention also provides a convenient thoroughly protected from being rubbed bemeans for carrying address-cards or the like. tween the two sides of the pocket and also The advantages of my device over the cusagainst blows or'jars from the outside. They 65 tomary cases or holders for. cigarettes or the are therefore preserved equally safely as if like are principally that the t of the garment VJthey were inclosed in a case, while being zo is not interfered with in any way by 'the use moreconveniently accessible and taking up of the shield and that while providing a sufproportionately less rooin inthe pocket. For flcient space to hold a quantity of cigarettes or special purposes largeror smaller size shields 7o the like it does not unduly increase the bulk may obviously be constructed. 0f the pocket. Further, it can be instantly Any desired embellishment, inscription, o1'

25 removed or replaced, and its contents are the like may be-placedon the inside or outquite as easily available as if they were carside of the shield.

ried entirely loose in` the pocket. A v What I claim is My invention is illustrated in the accom pa- 1. In combination with a garment-pocket, a nying drawings, in whichrectangular vertical shield for fragile articles,

3o Figure l shows an elevation of the apcurved approximately to the shape of the paratus viewed from the outside. Fig. 2 body, recurved vertical rims on said shield, shows a horizontal section on the line A B of a cover on saidshield, and rims, and a pocket 8o Fig. l. Fig.`3 shows avertical section on the in the cover ofsaid shield. line O D of Fig. l. Fig. 4 shows a perspec- 2. A protective pocket-shield for cigars,

3 5 tive View of the devicein position in a pocket. comprisingin combination an approximately The shield comprises a curved metal plate rectangular metal shield curved to the curl, composed of a rectangular piece of metal vature of the body, vertical rims on said shield 85 which is curvedto approximately correspond inwardly curved to inclosean-u'nobstructed `f fwith the curvature of the body. On eachV space between the front of the shield and the 4o side of the metal plate the' metal is turned inner side of the pocket anda cover adherent over to form a rim 2, and upon the thickness to the outside of said shield. of this rim the eapacityof the apparatus will In testimony whereof I have signed my 9o fdepend.l 'PracticallyInd it is convenient to name to this specification in the presence of give these rims the thickness of about onetwo subscribing witnesses.

45 quarter inch or a little more. At the middle ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN.

of the upper edge of the shield I usually cut Witnesses: a small depression 3 for conveniencein guid- LEONARD E. HAYNES,

ing the fingers of the user to select a'cigarette HERBERT1 SEFTON-J ONES. 

